Oracle Servers, Storage, and Solaris Podcasts

Gary Combs, Principal Product Manager at Oracle, explains how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster reduces the time and effort required to install, tune and administer optimized mission-critical systems.

Welcome! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, hosts Bill Nesheim, Markus Flierl, and Charlie Boyle give you a great preview of upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco, Sep 30 to Oct 4. They highlight the content that is planned for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Systems, and explain why this is THE conference to attend.

In this podcast Ganesh Ramamurthy, Vice President of Engineering in Oracle's System Group, explains how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster can provide 10x to 50x performance improvements for a wide range of database, middleware and enterprise applications. Learn how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster combines the high performance computing power of the SPARC T4-4 server, the unmatched scalability of Oracle Solaris 11, the database optimization of Oracle Exadata, and the accelerated processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

Welcome! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, hosts Bill Nesheim, Markus Flierl, and Charlie Boyle are joined by Steve Wilson, VP of Systems Management at Oracle. They discuss the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and how it enables you to design and manage mission critical cloud environments at scale with Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Solaris Cluster, the new T4 Systems, and OVM Server for SPARC. Hardware and software, truly engineered to work together!

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, host Charlie Boyle is joined by Isaac Rozenfeld, Principal Product Manager for Oracle Solaris, as well as Jesse Butler and Drew Fisher, both Senior Software Engineers in the Oracle Solaris organization. Hear about new system archival and recovery procedures for Oracle Solaris 11, using built-in ZFS filesystem capabilities. In addition, the distribution (or distro) constructor is discussed, a new tool that allows you to built deployable Solaris 11 images and media fairly easily.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our host Charlie Boyle discusses tools and procedure to help move from Solaris 10 to 11. He is joined by Isaac Rozenfeld, Principal Product Manager for Oracle Solaris, as well as Ethan Quach and Harold Shaw, both Principal Software Engineers in the Oracle Solaris organization. Hear about new technologies, such as the Automated Installer, and how the tool js2ai can help you get there from your existing deployment environment(s). In addition, learn about how to move from Solaris 10 to 11 with a new procedure called Live Install.

Join Rob Ludeman, Principal Product Manager at Oracle, as he explains why the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster provides an ideal platform for server consolidation.

Mikael Ronstrom, senior MySQL Architect, explains us how the MySQL Thread Pool improves MySQL Scalability.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the focus (and guest) is a bit more technical: host Charlie Boyle, Senior Director of Solaris Product Marketing, interviews Darren Moffat, Senior Principal Software Engineer. Darren explains a new feature in Oracle Solaris 11: immutable zones. Those are read-only root zones for highly secure deployment scenarios.

Ganesh Ramamurthy, Vice President of Engineering, Jennifer Glore, SuperCluster Engineering Team Lead, and Gary Combs, Principal Product Manager, provide an overview of the unique technical and business advantages of Oracle SPARC SuperCluster.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the focus (and guest) is a bit more technical: host Charlie Boyle, Senior Director of Solaris Product Marketing, interviews Darren Moffat, Senior Principal Software Engineer. Darren explains the enhancements and new use cases of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris 11.

Welcome! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, Markus Flierl, and Charlie Boyle discuss the many different ways and possibilities to upgrade your skills for Solaris 11. Find out why and how system administrators and programers should get up to speed, as demand for Solaris skills is high. Brand new training and certification offerings are also available for that.

Our usual hosts are joined by Markus Flierl, VP of Solaris Engineering, to discuss the release of Oracle Solaris 11. They explain why it is the best OS to run your cloud deployments, as well as why it is the best OS to run Oracle applications.

In this episode, our usual hosts discuss how you can manage Oracle Solaris 11 with its built-in capabilities. They are joined by Steve Wilson, VP of Systems Management at Oracle, to discuss the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

This episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series comes to you recorded live from Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco. Listen to Charlie Boyle, Bill Nesheim, and Chris Armes while they walk around the show floor, capturing all the excitement of Solaris 11 news and announcements, and talking to several Solaris staff members about what they heard from customers on the demo floor.

Hear Oracle Vice President Rick Hetherington explain how the unique design advantages of the newly announced SPARC T4 processor are delivering the biggest performance improvements of any generation in SPARC family history. Learn how the SPARC T4 processor's innovative design combined increases application performance, improves system reliability and simplifies datacenter deployment.

Oracle's SPARC SuperClusters are a new generation of optimized apps-to-disk engineered systems that offer the performance of Oracle Exadata and the management capabilities of the Oracle Exadata Elastic Cloud on the mission-critical SPARC platform running Oracle Solaris. Powered by the versatile new SPARC T4 processor, the new SPARC SuperCluster reaches unprecedented levels of responsiveness, scalability and availability and is an ideal platform for consolidating a broad range of enterprise applications.

Learn how new SPARC T4 server line is delivering the biggest generational increase in performance in the history of the SPARC processor. Based on the new SPARC T4 processor, this new line of servers is delivering 5x performance improvements on key workloads while extending the high overall system throughput and optimized security of previous generation SPARC T-Series systems. Hear how existing SPARC and Oracle software customers can immediately accelerate and consolidate their applications using built-in, no cost virtualization and the guaranteed binary compatibility of the Oracle Solaris operating system.

During this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle discuss new and modernized installation options for Oracle Solaris. For this, they are joined by Isaac Rozenfeld, Product Manager for Oracle Solaris. Hear about how these new technologies, which include Automated Installer, Boot Environments and the Distribution Constructor, were designed from the ground up to simplify administration and address customers' lifecycle needs. Co-engineered with other parts of Oracle Solaris, these innovations raise the bar and are exceptionally suited for large-scale cloud deployments of Oracle Solaris-based solutions.

This podcast series of "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" reviews how Oracle is gearing up with programs and support for our Oracle Solaris partners. Our usual hosts are joined by Mary Hadinger, Senior Director, ISV Programs and Strategy, and Dan Powers, Director of Oracle Solaris ISV Engineering. Tune in to hear how the newly announced Oracle Exastack program will enable Oracle Solaris ISVs to expand their reach and capabilities with Oracle Solaris. And learn how our partners can leverage Oracle's ISV Engineering organization to assist in their Oracle Solaris certification efforts.